Re: How to be debian developer
* Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 14:12]: The baseline is: you don't ask for participating, you just do it by getting involded in the areas you are interested in. What you say is basically true. However, many Asian countries are very new to free software (open source) development and don't have an established development community yet. While they can read the documention we supply (which is fairly thorough and well done), it also helps to have a direct contact person who can answer questions and to organize practical sessions introducing interested people to ways of contributing to Debian. I've talked to people from various Asian countries at the conference in Beijing who were interested in establishing a development community and I offered to give them some help. This is just FYI. Your reply(s) were helpful already, and I appreciate them. In many cases, people don't get good pointers on how to start. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to be debian developer
* Rapid Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-15 16:35]: Cambodia is new to Open Source. I am very interesting in this and some of my students want to be debian developer. Can you tell me how can we start on this? In addition to what the other people have already said, I intend to write a message with some information to the people I met in Beijing. I've been ill since returning from China, but I hope I'll find time to write the message soon. I'll send it to you too. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to be debian developer
Dear Sir or Madam, Last month, i have attended Debian Mini Conference in Beijing. The project manager, Mr. Martin, mentioned about helping Debian. Cambodia is new to Open Source. I am very interesting in this and some of my students want to be debian developer. Can you tell me how can we start on this? For the other suggestions, I would like to ask you to send all manual documents, CDs related to debian because in my organisation, we already setted up a room for Free/Open Source Software. I am looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Rapid Sun -- -- Mr. Rapid Sun FOSS Moderator/ Focal Point National ICT Development Authority Tel: +855-16-868984 Fax: +855-23-428952 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.nida.gov.kh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to be debian developer
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10.35, Rapid Sun wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, Last month, i have attended Debian Mini Conference in Beijing. The project manager, Mr. Martin, mentioned about helping Debian. Cambodia is new to Open Source. I am very interesting in this and some of my students want to be debian developer. Can you tell me how can we start on this? Hi, The best place is to start by reading the Debian web site, especially starting at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ and http://www.debian.org/devel/. The short summary: don't start by applying to become an official, registered Debian Developer. Instead, get familiar with Debian, with its strengths and its weaknesses (both from a technical and structural/organisational view point.) Find where Debian is lacking and where you think you can work on improving Debian. Find people who are currently working in these areas (this is a very important step!), and talk to those people (often through a mailing list - if you're not sure, people on IRC or on the general debian-devel mailing list will certainly point you in the right direction.) Report bugs in the Debian bug tracking database (http://bugs.debian.org), but check first if the same bug was not reported before. It is very important to me that you don't get the impression that you wanting to help is not appreciated - quite on the contrary, Debian can use more people. But it *does* take quite a bit experience for many tasks, and getting experience takes time. What you always can do, and where help is really sorely needed, is doing translations and documentation - in some areas little technical expertise is needed, so you can instantly start working. Again: first talk to the relevant people; again see the web site at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ (especially the mailing lists at http://lists.debian.org/i18n.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/) For the other suggestions, I would like to ask you to send all manual documents, CDs related to debian because in my organisation, we already setted up a room for Free/Open Source Software. Debian as an organisation does not send out CDs and manuals. I am aware that big fat Internet access may not be available in your region, so your best course of action is probably - searching Linux users's groups in your wider area (and every time somebody you know travels to some location) - asking at companies/institutions in your area with decent interent connectivity if you may download Debian cd images there. That said, to really actively work on Debian, I feel a way to regularly upload and download quantities of software is quite necessary (not necessarily 100s of MBytes, but certainly tens of MBytes per week) - Debian is an Internet project, and much Software is updated regularly. Shipping CDs regularly is probably just not really a feasible long-term solution. greetings -- vbi -- Hail Eris, Hack Linux! pgpi1uhdYzWc4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to be debian developer
Re: Rapid Sun in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last month, i have attended Debian Mini Conference in Beijing. The project manager, Mr. Martin, mentioned about helping Debian. Cambodia is new to Open Source. I am very interesting in this and some of my students want to be debian developer. There are many ways to get involved: go to the #debian channels on IRC, fix some bugs on bugs.debian.org, find a nice package to adopt (see the wnpp bugs) or package a new one, etc... This is all summarized at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/, which also has pointers to all kinds of documentation. The baseline is: you don't ask for participating, you just do it by getting involded in the areas you are interested in. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to be debian developer
also sprach Rapid Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.15.1035 +0100]: Last month, i have attended Debian Mini Conference in Beijing. The project manager, Mr. Martin, mentioned about helping Debian. Cambodia is new to Open Source. I am very interesting in this and some of my students want to be debian developer. Can you tell me how can we start on this? My book (http://debianbook.info) has a chapter on this, and also provides a lot of other helpful information. I realise that it is sold at a price which is not appropriate in Cambodia. I visited your country this January and was so warmly greeted everywhere that I would not be able to sleep at night without saying: please send me your address and the number of people involved and I will see what I can do. :) -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signature.asc Description: Digital signature
